This is a concise, readable guide to enabling web access (across intranets and the Internet) to information created over decades on many different systems. This content includes shop-by-mail pricing guides, school registration and tuition systems, and billion-dollar corportae databases.
The return on investment for web-enabling information can be staggering: a large consulting firm that created an intranet out of its data managed a return of nearly 1400%. The price of choosing the wrong technology to manage data can be equally staggering in both money spent and manpower lost.
The key to integrating databases onto the web is flexibility. Flexibility is also the key to this book. Lear how to make a wide range of applications and configurations work in harmony: all database types - flatfile, relational, extended relational, and object; assorted SQL implemntations; several levels of security concerns; and many transaction systems ranging from plain old CGI to FastCGI, NSAPI and ISAPI.
